Methodist

November 30, 1985|By Compiled from Sentinel services by John Gholdston.

GRASS ROOTS. A poll of 480 grass-roots advisers to a committee revising the United Methodist hymnal found that most of them oppose any attempts to change traditional language about God to sexually inclusive or feminine forms. However, the lay and clergy ''consultants'' spread across the country indicated willingness to change exclusive nouns and pronouns to inclusive terms.